Potomac Books: 562 books
Screening the System
Exposing Security Clearance Dangers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
The Personnel Security Clearance System—the process by which the federal government incorporates individuals into secret national-security work—is flawed. After twenty-three years of federal service, Martha Louise Deutscher explores the current system and the amount of power afforded to the...
Cashing In on Cyberpower
How Interdependent Actors Seek Economic Outcomes in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
As the world has become increasingly digitally interconnected, military leaders and other actors are ditching symmetric power strategies in favor of cyberstrategies. Cyberpower enables actors to change actual economic outcomes without the massive resource investment required for military force deployments.
Cashing...
by Alan Reifman
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Upon witnessing a series of outstanding (or awful) performances, a sports fan or announcer may wonder, What are the odds of that happening? In fact, statisticians have shown that, for the most part, athletic streaks occur about as often as would be expected by random chance; if one flipped a coin a thousand...
by Buckner F. Melton, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2005
No group is quotedand misquotedmore often than Americas founders. When a political controversy heats up, the nations speechwriters, politicians, reporters, editorial writers, and talking heads try to influence the debate by quoting their words. Year in and year out, teachers and political buffs look...
by Luciano Mangiafico
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2007
Italy has always captivated the imagination of foreigners, attracted many to its shores, and contributed more than its share to world culture and progress, not to mention its delectable cuisine. A small country, it is about 116,000 square miles, or roughly less than half the size of Texas. But despite...
On Point
A Guide to Writing the Military Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Personal writing can be risky for anyone, but for military veterans, especially those suffering from post-traumatic stress, sharing stories can trigger painful and disturbing flashbacks. Writing is also risky for the ego. It is one thing to write a military story, especially one based on authentic...
by David Axe
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Logistics includes the planning and practice of moving stuffraw materials, tools, finished products, and even peoplefrom one place to another. It carried American settlers over the sparsely populated Great Plains to connect the East Coast to the West Coast and has underpinned our domestic prosperity...
The Search for the Japanese Fleet
USS Nautilus and the Battle of Midway
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In The Search for the Japanese Fleet, David W. Jourdan, one of the world’s experts in undersea exploration, reconstructs the critical role one submarine played in the Battle of Midway, considered to be the turning point of the war in the Pacific. In the direct line of fire during this battle was...
Amiable Scoundrel
Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
From abject poverty to undisputed political boss of Pennsylvania, Lincoln’s secretary of war, senator, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a founder of the Republican Party, Simon Cameron (1799–1889) was one of the nineteenth century’s most prominent political figures. In his...
How We Won and Lost the War in Afghanistan
Two Years in the Pashtun Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Douglas Grindle provides a firsthand account of how the war in Afghanistan was won in a rural district south of Kandahar City and how the newly created peace slipped away when vital resources failed to materialize and the United States headed for the exit.
By placing the reader at the heart...
by Neil Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
No sport demands toughness more than professional football, and no sport celebrates it with as much joy, excitement, and pride. John Madden annually offers his picks of the top tough guys, and sick hits are shown repeatedly on jumbotrons nationwide and ESPNÆs Sportscenter. Anyone whoÆs ever watched...
She Can Bring Us Home
Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Long before it became the slogan of the presidential campaign for Barack Obama, Dorothy Ferebee (1898–1980) lived by the motto YES, WE CAN. An African American obstetrician and civil rights activist from Washington DC, she was descended from lawyers, journalists, politicians, and a judge. At a time...
by Azriel Lorber
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2002
Technological failure results when one side in a conflict does not fully grasp the potential impact of known, or even familiar, weapons in the enemyÆs hands. In most cases, such failure resulted from higher officialsÆ ignorance or their total misunderstanding of the importance and relevance of such...
Problematic
How Toxic Callout Culture Is Destroying Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
From Beyoncé’s Lemonade to The Force Awakens to the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, the entertainment industry seems to be embracing the power of women like never before. But with more feminist content comes more feminist criticism—and it feels as if there’s always something to complain about.
Dianna...